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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
— Confucius
Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.
— Billy Graham
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
— Epictetus
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
— Jonathan Edwards
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
— Albert Schweitzer
Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity
— Charles Swindoll
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.
— John Maxwell
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
— Confucius
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
— Tertullian
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
— Theodore Roosevelt
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
— Ayn Rand
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
— Thomas Jefferson